Improvement in bindings for skirts



T. B. DE FOREST. BINDING PoR SKIRTS.

-THOMAS B. DE FOREST, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN lBINDINGS FOR SKIRTS.

Specification forming -part GwLetters Patent No. 61,1379, dated January 15. 1867.

CASE B.

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, T. B. DE FOREST, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticuthave invented al new Improved Binding for Dress-Skirts; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereo n, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent sections of different forms' of constructing the binding, enlarged.

This invention relates to au improvement in the binding for the skirts of ladies7 dresses; and consists in the formation of a binding which shall' present an edge of india-rubber or other flexible material below the edge of 'the `skirt to protect the same from wear by contact with the ioor or pavement.

To enable others'ito ,construct and use my improvement I' will proceed to describe the saine as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The nia-nner in which 4I prefer to form the binding is by the attachment of the gum to a ribbon or strip of ordinary binding and secure the two together by the process known as vulcanization. Such construction is shown in Figures l, 2, 3, 4, and 5, enlarged.

ln Fig. 1. a is the binding, and d the rubber. The rubber is applied to the binding w-hile in an adhesive or uncured state; or it may be cured rubber, the surface which comes in contact with the binding being coated with indiarubber gum, the two being attached together and secured by the ordinaryprocess of vul-` canization, and l(hen the binding is stitched to the skirt in the usual manner; or, as seen in Fig. 2, two strips iof binding, a, a, are attached in like manner, the one lying upon the outside of the skirt, the other upon the inside,

and in Fig. 3 a broad piece of binding is usedV and doubled so as to form two sides, and the doubled edge covered, as seen at d, Fig. 4, in like manner; or, as in Fig. 4, a round edge oi' rubber, d, may be in Vlike manner secured to the binding a., or a Hat piece of rubber, d, secured tothe binding a, as seen in Fig. 5.

I thus 'far describe the rubber as attached to the binding by gum or the process oi' vul-- canization, yet it may be done, as seen in Fig. 6, bystitching the binding a. to the rubber d, as denoted at f.

Ii' preferred, the binding itself` may be thinly coated with india-rubber, and thus rendered water-proof:

The edge of the binding thus formed prevents the binding from being worn by dragging upon the floor or pavement, and the binding is thus prepared at a comparatively small cost.

By the expression of india-rubber edge I do not wish to be understood as conning myself to this material, but to any kindred iexible material.

Having thus fully Vdescribed my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A binding presenting an india-rubber or similar iexible edge, substantially as herein described, as a new article of manufacture.

THOS. B. DE FOREST.

Witnesses:

E. SEUsTER, DANIEL S. LATHROP. 

